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Posted on 05/15/2013 4:09:35 AM PDT by LD Jackson
The President is currently mired in three major scandals. We all know about Benghazi and the IRS Scandal. The third involves the Justice Department secretly obtaining the phone records of journalists at the Associated Press, allegedly for the purposes of discovering a whistleblower. The White House of course has directed the media to the Justice Department, who will no doubt either refuse to comment or send the press back to the White House. This is an issue that won’t go away, largely because the press has a vested interest in protecting their sources. How can we have a free press when the government spies on members of the media?
The IRS Scandal is completely blowing up on Obama. At yesterday’s press conference Obama claimed he learned about it when the media reported it. How can it be that the chief executive of the government not know about this scandal? Especially so when there were press reports about it over two years ago and the American Center for Law and Justice served upon Obama’s Chief of Staff an official complaint three weeks ago? Jay Carney acknowledges the White House found out three weeks ago. How is it Obama didn’t find out until last Friday? He’s either lying or a completely incompetent manager. Perhaps Valerie Jarrett is protecting the President from bad news but it’s on him to get rid of someone like Jarrett if she’s doing that. The scandal also extends beyond Cincinnati. The targeting was agency wide.
Yesterday Obama claimed that he called Benghazi a terrorist attack the very next day after it happened. No one is buying it, not even the liberal Washington Post. There is video out there of the President as late as September 26th claiming the video caused a riot which led to four American deaths. Drudge is reporting that a fourth bombshell is about to hit, perhaps from the CIA. It’s the CIA that Obama is currently blaming for the revisions to the administration talking points. One suspects that the CIA doesn’t think very much of being hung out to dry and as such they may be planning their revenge. Whether they release information about gun or missile running to Syria or if they release more information about the revisions remains to be seen. If there is one arm of the Federal government a President would be wise not to toy with it’s the CIA.
The question here is whether any of this reaches the level of an impeachable offense. As it stands today, there is not an impeachable offense. There is complete and utter incompetence within the Obama administration. Obama appears to be completely incapable of managing the executive branch. Right now his best argument is his own incompetence, his own mistakes. If he must blame someone, he can blame other people’s mistakes. As it stands today, there is no direct link between the IRS and the White House and no direct evidence that information was exchanged. In Benghazi there is evidence of extreme incompetence from Obama and the State Department. However until a weapon running scheme can be identified with hard evidence there isn’t an impeachable offense. As it stands on May 14th, 2013 we don’t yet have evidence that Obama engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors.
We have two choices with Obama, neither of them very good. We either believe he’s grossly incompetent or grossly evil. Today the conclusion reached must be grossly incompetent and thus he must not be impeached. As time goes on, that analysis may change as we don’t know what will be released in the coming days, weeks and months. We may discover a widespread scheme to threaten and harass whistleblowers, which could rise to the level of impeachable offense. We have to let the investigations play out. What sad position this country is in. It’s one thing to disagree with the President politically, it’s one thing to question his political moves. It’s another thing entirely when we are presented with a choice between our President being profoundly incompetent at managing the executive branch or profoundly evil in how he wields his power.
UPDATE: There appears to be anti-conservative bias throughout the Obama administration. At the EPA 92% of liberal groups FOIA requests saw their FOIA fees waived while 92% of conservative groups saw their requests for fee waivers rejected. The same thing appears to be happening at the FCC, where it rejects conservative FIOA requests and grants liberal FOIA requests. How far this bias goes is unknown at this point. It makes the IRS scandal less surprising and more business as usual for the Obama administration.
The press stopped being objective long ago. If you sleep with dogs you’ll get fleas.
Don’t forget to add Fast-n-Furious to the list of scandals. People died there too.
How about Fast and Furious. I don’t think anyone in Washington has any balls. They can’t get a large enough consensus to do squat. This entire goverment is a sham.
Try “waging war against the US”.
0bama is an impeachable offense.
“Has Obama Committed An Impeachable Offense?”
Oh, Lord. Let me count the ways.
It doesn’t matter WHAT Treason, Corruption, etc. this Mulatto Messiah engages in.....his Obamaphone/EBT-dependent base would riot in the streets if ANY “Racist” effort were made to get rid of the dumbass.
Nothing short of widespread public outrage will move the Dims to consider anything close to impeachment.
Bengazi is treason.
OTOH there is a riot currently taking place everywhere BUT the streets at the moment.
Yes but his underlings will do anything to protect him. They will perjure themselves and go to jail before they will indict him. They will be fired with the promise of a cushy job later on if they just shut up.
no he hasn’t committed AN impeachable offense.
he has committed multiple and varied impeachable offenses.
“How about Fast and Furious. I don’t think anyone in Washington has any balls. They can’t get a large enough consensus to do squat. This entire goverment is a sham.”
Well, I kinda like all these scandals. It keeps the Dem’s distracted and off balance. It would be fantastic if they (Dem’s) don’t pass another single piece of legislation during The One’s remaking time in office....
Does the right just sit around in “intellectual” circles asking stupid questions like, “Did the left commit an impeachable offense?”
Then There Were Five Obama Scandals…?
Bryan Preston
May 14, 2013 - 9:07 am
The Environmental Protection Agency stands accused today of showing favoritism toward liberal groups over conservative groups.
Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Conservative Enterprise Institute.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05/14/and-then-there-were-five-obama-scandals/
Impeachable?
His crack to the Rooskies about having “more flexibility after the election” was treason and a hanging offense.
The sad part is, is that we will be a generation or two before you can weed out his cronies embedded into every agency. We are had the cancer is too great to overcome. No scalpel will cut them out. You can only kill the patient. Look at even today your still dealing with the Clintons and their crew. We’re had.
The question here is: How many?
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